How Do You Rank The Value Of A School?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”– The Wizard of Oz
Despite the fact that the California Charter School Association’s (CCSA) confidential plan to steal facilities from public school students was uncovered months ago, their lackeys continue to insist that Nick Melvoin’s School Performance Framework (SPF) is the only way for parents to understand how to evaluate schools. Instead of demanding transparency with access to the raw data and information about the services that schools provide, they want bureaucrats to decide what information is important and present a ranking system that eliminates the ability of parents to make their own decisions. While they plan to use this system to decide which schools should have to give up space to charter schools beyond what is already lost under Prop 39, they oppose using it as part of the charter renewal process.
While the SPF was supposed to have already been publicly released, its implementation has been delayed. Board Member Jackie Goldberg’s pending resolution would make this delay permanent by suspending “implementation of the SPF and any launching or utilization of the SPF—including any use of stars, scores, or any other CONTINUE READING: How Do You Rank The Value Of A School?
